Tool announces surprise North American tour, 5 Canadian dates

Maynard James Keenan of A Perfect Circle performs during the Monster Energy Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park on Oct. 21, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif.

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Less than a month after concluding the southern leg of their 2020 U.S. tour, Tool has announced a brand new stretch of North American shows. Twenty-eight, to be exact.

The news of the spring trek was reported on Monday by Pitchfork, who revealed that the Schism rockers will play five Canadian shows across five different cities: Montreal, Quebec City, Vancouver, Edmonton and Winnipeg.

However, first, the tour will kick off on April 16 in Miami, Fla., before concluding nine weeks later in San Francisco, Calif., on June 23.

On the road, Tool will continue to promote its latest release, Fear Inoculum, which serves as boththeir first new album in 13 years and the long-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2006 album 10,000 Days.

The 86-minute spanning album dethronedTaylor Swift‘s seventh album, Lover (2019), from the top of the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart last September after being in the top spot for only one week. It sold more than 270,000 copies in only its first week.

One of the album’s tracks, 7empest, even earned the band the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.

Opening up for the four-piece metal act will be New York City-based alt. rock group Blonde Redhead and The Acid Helps, according to Blabbermout.net.

The acts will split opening act duties throughout the tour, with the former playing from April 16 to May 5 and the latter opening between May 29 and June 23 — except at Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tenn.